Week 38

History:
We learned about Julius Caesar and his rise to power. He got really popular with the people and convinced them to make him a third consul even though the whole point was to have two to keep each other in check. The people really liked him, though, so he ended up becoming even more popular and was able to take over.

Science:
We learned more about the Electromagnetic spectrum and more specifically about microwaves. We watched a BrainPop about the electromagnetic spectrum. We went to the Tulip Festival at thanksgiving point gardens. It was really pretty. So many different colors and varieties of tulips. They even had some old species of tulips, like what they looked like before people started cultivating them.

L. Arts:
Max- I did more practice of er/ir/ur words. I wrote a Mother’s Day card and mailed it to my grandma in Idaho. I read some stories in my lesson reader.
Mali- I did Nessy lessons. I did a lesson with mom. I read the next book in my reader. It is about a turtle named Gump.

Math:
Max- In Dreambox I used partial products to fill in a number line using 1 group more or one group less. Trying to remember simple math facts to help figure out the trickier ones.

Mali- in my workbook i did more shape patterns and reviewed names of 3-dimensional solids.i did some Dreambox as well and played an addition app on the iPad.

Tech:
We have been decorating wooden people cutouts to look like different superheroes. We made some for our mom for her birthday.
Mali- I made some large paper creatures that were connected with tape so I could fold them easily for storage. I also made some butterfly decorations for our bedroom door.

Some flowers at the Tulip Festival

We did a family spa night and it was fun

Mom got a hammock! It's a great place to read

We decorated rocks and hid them around the neighborhood. 

Twins in the hammock. Mali is hiding

Spelling with the letters

Mali's sloth helping with spelling

O I C U R M T = oh I see you are empty 

Max & Mom at the Tulip Festival

More flowers 

Mali made this tower out of things we cleaned out of Dad's office

 Mali's paper monster (1 of them). We went ahead and traced over the pencil lines
with sharpie so they would show up better after we took this photo

Butterflies!

Dad's giant sloth (also brought home from his office) joined the twins for
their Zoom music class

Mali drew these two versions of essentially the same picture. She really liked the shading on the cat.